Man without a face

Recently I've become more interested in portrait photography. A lot of my work has always been indirectly about people and the social consequences of the way we live, but until recently I've never really consciously shot portraits.

A portrait should tell you something about a person, but sometimes a face is simply not enough. By focusing on other aspects of a person, it is often possible to tell more of a story.

The photograph below was taken of a traditional carver in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada in the summer of 2010. This was a trip where I did actually start to shoot portraits and this is the one that says the most to me.